Improvement in shoes



F. KILSHEIMER.

Shoe.

Patented Jam 7, 1879;

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UNITED STATES PATENT OEEIoE.

FERDINAND KILSHEIMER, OF CINCINNATI, OHIO.

IMPROVEMENT IN SHOES.

Specification forming part of Letters Patent No. 211,162, dated January 7, 1879; application filed November 29, 1878.

, and State of Ohio, have invented a new and useful Improvement in Shoes, which improvement is fully set forth in the following specification and accompanying drawing.

The invention relates to that class of shoes in which the front part is crimped and formed of one piece, and is an improvement on my device patented May 10, 1870, No. 102,496.

My improvements consist in forming the back part of the uppers of a shoe in one piece, the same as described in my patent of May 10, 1870, combined with an additional confiningflap, starting from the side seam and fasteningstrap, as hereinafter described.

Figure 1 represents the side view of a shoe, open, having my improved device. Fig. 2 is a side view, showing a shoe as fastened when worn. I

Similar letters of reference indicate correspondin g parts. a

A is the. front upper. B is the back upper, having an upper extension, b. O- is a flap, carrying a strap, 0, the end of which engages the buckle D.

In my original device the end I) of the back extension B was turned over and passed through the buckle D.

In my improved device the end I) is folded over, either to the right or left, but designed to be covered by the exterior flap, (J. The inner lining is carried only so far rearward to the dotted line shown on the drawing, leaving the gore-shaped extension unlined and pliable, tofenable it to be folded either to the-right or 1e t.

In the drawing filed herewith, the strap cis a separate piece sewed onto the flap 0; but this can be dispensed with, and the whole can be made in' one piece, if desired.

I do not desire to limit myself to the exact shapes of the flap G or its strap 0, as shown, as it is manifest that both may be varied, as taste or convenience may dictate.

\Vhat I claim is A shoe having its back upper made with an expanding back, having an upper-extension, b, all cut in one piece, without any seam, in combination with flap G, carrying a strap ping-tongue, 0, starting from the side seam, substantially as described.

I FERDINAND KILSHEIMER.

Witnesses:

A. ABRAHAM, J OHN' W. DAVY. 

